On the day before the Commissioners meeting Williams Partners rep Perry Luu publishes an article in the Lancaster newspapers urging residents to get involved. The article works hard to derail the question “Why does Lancaster need the pipeline?” by encouraging residents to plan where it should go. This strategy is designed to make people believe it is inevitable, and invite you to make it as painless as possible. Please tell people swayed by this article that it doesn’t have to be here at all.

The 27-mile pipeline would cut through Lebanon County.

A group hoping to stop an Oklahoma-based company’s plan to build an underground natural gas pipeline through Lebanon County got a lot of work done its first organizational meeting Thursday night. But one thing it didn’t accomplish was coming up with a name for the group….

HOUSTON – Williams Partners is planning a $300 million pipeline expansion to carry natural gas to Cheniere Energy’s planned liquefied natural gas export facilities at the Sabine Pass in Louisiana, the company said Friday.

Lancaster County residents concerned about a 35-mile natural gas line planned here will get their first chance to address the pipeline’s builder and operator face to face at a County Commissioners work session on Tuesday, April 29.

Court Blocks Use of Eminent Domain on Pipeline

“York County landowners affected by the same proposed Marcellus Shale pipeline that would run through Clay and West Cocalico townships in Lancaster County have won a court battle blocking Sunoco Logistics from condemning their land. In a March 25 ruling in York County Common Pleas Court, Judge Stephen Linebaugh reaffirmed his previous ruling that Sunoco was a pipeline carrier, and not a public utility, and therefore had no eminent domain powers.”

The Williams Northwest Pipeline plant is seen after a large explosion and fire in Plymouth, Wash., Monday, March 31, 2014. (AP Photo/The Tri-City Herald, Sarah Gordon)

By Jeff BarnardAssociated Press

A large explosion rocked a natural gas processing plant on the Washington-Oregon border Monday, injuring five workers, causing about 400 people to evacuate from nearby farms and homes, and emitting a mushroom cloud of black smoke that was visible for more than a mile.

The 8:20 a.m. blast at the Williams Northwest Pipeline facility near the Washington town of Plymouth, along the Columbia River, sparked a fire and punctured one of the facility’s two giant storage tanks for …